Three polling station officials in Poland’s snap presidential vote have been sacked for being drunk, the country’s electoral commission said on Sunday.
“Three members of a polling station’s staff turned up in a drunken state. They were dismissed from their duties and replaced by other individuals,” the commission’s chief Wlodzimierz Ryms told reporters.
The country’s 26 000 polling stations opened at 6:00 am on Sunday in the election forced by the air-crash death of conservative president Lech Kaczynski in April.
Poland’s 31 million voters had until 8:00 pm to cast their ballots.
Acting head of state Bronislaw Komorowski, the governing liberals’ candidate, faces the late president’s identical twin, conservative opposition leader and ex-prime minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski. — AFP